iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

DEN MUSS MAN GESEHEN HABEN! KAAWWOOOMMMMM Wait for it…. Da wird nicht mehr viel übrig sein. 😏🤷‍♂️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/04/2025

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

And here I was always told that it was the left that wanted to destroy the American empire.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If your mom has to step in to help you out, you probably aren’t up to the job. Just saying.

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Pete Hegseth told RSC members his mom has been making calls to senators on his behalf, per source.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Trump's win shows us who we really are: This article by professor Aaron W. Hughey is one of the most powerful and accurate post-election indictments of America you'll ever read. 😳👇

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Oligarchy, then and now.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/11/2024

This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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My Life As a Homeless Man in America

An extraordinary firsthand account.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health: Vaccines Antibiotics & antimicrobials Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene Food safety & fortification innovations Modern agriculture methods Public health education campaigns 1/

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

5 years ago yesterday I wrote an essay arguing that institutions were thinking about online media, insurgencies, & manipulation campaigns all wrong. Fighting the last war. The Digital Maginot line, I called it. It went viral then. Here it is on its anniversary. www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/t...

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Feed
There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure underpinning everyday life to sow discord and erode shared reality. The conflict is still being processed as a series of individual skirmishes - a collection of disparate, localized, truth-in-narrative problems - but these battles are connected. The campaigns are often perceived as organic online chaos driven by emergent, bottom-up amateur actions when a substantial amount is, in fact, helped along or instigated by systematic, top-down institutional and state actions. This is a kind of warm war; not the active, declared, open conflict of a hot war, but beyond the shadowboxing of a cold one.

The Information World War has already been going on for several years. We called the opening skirmishes "media manipulation" and "hoaxes", assuming that we were dealing with ideological pranksters doing it for the lulz (and that lulz were harmless).
In reality, the combatants are professional, state-employed cyberwarriors and seasoned amateur guerrillas pursuing very well-defined objectives with military precision and specialized tools. Each type of combatant brings a different mental model to the conflict, but uses the same set of tools.
There are state-sponsored trolls, destabilizing societies in some countries, and rendering all information channels except state media useless in others. They operate at the behest of rulers, often through military or intelligence divisions.
Sometimes, as in the case of Duterte in the Philippines, these digital armies focus on interference in their own elections, using paid botnets and teams of sockpuppet personas to troll and harass opponents, or to amplify their owner's candidacy. Other times, the trolls reach beyond their borders to manipulate politics elsewhere, as
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Algorithmic distribution systems will always be co-opted by the best resourced or most technologically capable combatants. Soon, better Al will rewrite the playbook yet again - perhaps the digital equivalent of Blitzkrieg in its potential for capturing new territory. Al-generated audio and video deepfakes will erode trust in what we see with our own eyes, leaving us vulnerable both to faked content and to the discrediting of the actual truth by insinuation. Authenticity debates will commandeer media cycles, pushing us into an infinite loop of perpetually investigating basic facts. Chronic skepticism and the cognitive DDoS will increase polarization, leading to a consolidation of trust in distinct sets of right and left-wing authority figures - thought oligarchs speaking to entirely separate groups.
We know this is coming, and yet we're doing very little to get ahead of it. No one is responsible for getting ahead of it.
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$If the warm war is allowed to continue as it has, there is a very real threat of descent into illegitimate leadership and fractured, paralyzed societies. If algorithmic amplification continues to privilege the propagandists most effective at gaming the system, if combatant persona accounts continue to harass civilian voices off of platforms, and if hostile state intelligence services remain able to recruit millions of Americans into fake "communities", the norms that have traditionally protected democratic societies will fail. We don't have time to waste on digital security theater. In the two years since Election 2016, we've all come to agree that something is wrong on the internet. There is momentum and energy to do something, but the complexity of the problem and the fact that it intersects with other thorny issues of internet governance (privacy, monopoly, expression, among others) means that we're stuck in a state of paralysis, unable to address disinformation in a meaningful way. Instead, both regulators and the platforms throw up low-level roadblocks. This is what a digital Maginot line looks like.$

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 22/11/2024

That‘s quite the Politico cover.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/11/2024

A new suite of comics curated by @mattbors.bsky.social deals with the aftermath of the election and how to fight through the mess we find ourselves in. Read them all here, and watch this space for more! inthesetimes.com/article/musk...

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Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 26/11/2024

1) Many underestimate the investment the PRC has put into influencing the US social media sphere. 2) The destruction of Trust and Safety at X has made it a playground for PRC actors. 3) It's nice to see them whine about BlueSky. 4) But there is nothing magical about BlueSky to keep them away.

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